[olug] Chrome

[Dave Thacker]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 17:40:38 Brian Roberson wrote:
> My simple take....
>
> SAAS / Managed Services.
>
> Forget about all the cool stuff we have been talking about (what
> rendering engine/ widget toolkit yada yada)
> Look at this from the perspective of SAAS. Google has been on this SAAS
> kick for a while now, and this is
> just another entry point for them on the "client" side of the equation.
> KIOSK with Chrome? sounds like a win-win
> for them. I see a possible insider view of: Google apps replacing
> <MS/Star/Open> Office and Chrome replacing
> <insert your Fat Application> here.Make it run on anything, everything
> is web based these days, and if you end
> of owning both sides of the equation, think of the penetration you get.
> Port it to Android, Port it to OSX, Port it
> to Linux... who cares what OS you run, as long as the client side code
> base is under your control, you can make it
> truly cross-platform-device-etc...
>
>
> </END COMMENTARY>

Eventually we'll all be working for cloud providers/SAAS providers, or we 
won't be working with linux.  

Dave Thacker

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